Book Description
A modern, all-encompassing exploration of what happens after death combines spirituality with philosophy, history, and science, all of which guide readers toward the timeless truth that human consciousness lives on after death.
Author : Ptolemy Tompkins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1451616538
A modern, all-encompassing exploration of what happens after death combines spirituality with philosophy, history, and science, all of which guide readers toward the timeless truth that human consciousness lives on after death.
Author : Barry Kemp
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1847087515
The Egyptians created a world of supernatural forces so vivid, powerful and inescapable that controlling one's destiny within it was a constant preoccupation. In life, supernatural forces manifested themselves through misfortune and illness,and after death were faced for eternity in the Otherworld, along with the divine gods who controlled the universe. The Book of the Dead empowered the reader to overcome the dangers lurking in the Otherworld and to become one with the gods who governed. Barry Kemp selects a number of spells to explore who and what the Egyptians feared and the kind of assistance that the Book offered them, revealing a relationship between the human individual and the divine quite unlike that found in the major faiths of the modern world.
Author : Eva Von Dassow
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 18,15 MB
Release : 2008-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811864893
Reissue of the legendary 3,500-year-old Papyrus of Ani, the most beautiful of the ornately illustrated Egyptian funerary scrolls ever discovered, restored in its original sequences of text and artwork.
Author : John H. Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Book of the dead
ISBN : 9780674057500
With contributions from leading scholars and detailed catalog entries that interpret the spells and painted scenes, this fascinating and important work affords a greater understanding of ancient Egyptian belief systems and poignantly reveals the hopes and fears about the world beyond death.
Author : John Phillips
Publisher : Hudson Hills
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781555953157
John Ransom Phillips: A Contemporary Book of the Dead is an artist's monograph of watercolors on papyryus that
Author : Paul F. O'Rourke
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0500051887
The first-ever translation of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead of Sobekmose—fully illustrated and explained by a leading Egyptologist, offering fascinating insights into one of the greatest civilizations of the ancient world The Book of the Dead of Sobekmose, in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, is one of the most important surviving examples of ancient Egyptian Books of the Dead. Such “books”—actually papyrus scrolls—were composed of traditional funerary texts, including magic spells, which were thought to assist the deceased on their journeys into the afterlife. The ancient Egyptians believed in an underworld fraught with dangers that needed to be carefully navigated, from the familiar, such as snakes and scorpions, to the extraordinary: lakes of fire to cross, animal-headed demons to pass, and the ritual Weighing of the Heart, whose outcome determined whether or not the deceased would be born again into the afterlife for eternity. Virtually all of the existing published translations of material from the Book of the Dead corpus are compilations of various texts drawn from a number of sources, and many translations are available only in excerpt form. This publication is the first to offer a continuous English translation of a single, extensive, major text from beginning to end in the order in which it was composed. This new translation not only represents a great step forward in the study of these texts but also grants modern readers a direct encounter with what can seem a remote and alien, though no less fascinating, civilization.
Author : Marion Winik
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1640092544
Marion Wink is esteemed for bringing humor and wit to that most unavoidable of subjects: death. At last, Winik's critically acclaimed, cult favorites, Glen Rock Book of the Dead and Baltimore Book of the Dead, have been carefully combined in their proper chronological order, revealing more clearly than ever before the character hidden throughout these stories: Winik herself. Featuring twelve additional vignettes along with a brand–new introduction, The Big Book of the Dead continues Winik's work as an empathetic, witty chronicler of life.
Author : John Skipp
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553279986
Blood-draining tales by horror masters--including Stephen King, Robert McCammon, Ramsey Campbell, and David Schow--conjure the heinous deeds of the vengeful living dead, in a collection of Zombie stories
Author : Adam Bunch
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 38,51 MB
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 145973808X
Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths. If these streets could talk... With morbid tales of war and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séances, Toronto’s past is filled with stories whose endings were anything but peaceful. The Toronto Book of the Dead delves into these: from ancient First Nations burial mounds to the grisly murder of Toronto’s first lighthouse keeper; from the rise and fall of the city’s greatest Victorian baseball star to the final days of the world’s most notorious anarchist. Toronto has witnessed countless lives lived and lost as it grew from a muddy little frontier town into a booming metropolis of concrete and glass. The Toronto Book of the Dead tells the tale of the ever-changing city through the lives and deaths of those who made it their final resting place.
Author : Angelo Stagnaro
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Death
ISBN : 9780824526146
Exploring the mysteries of death and the afterlife, this religious guide seeks to answer some of life's most pressing and universal questions by drawing from truths central to the Christian tradition. Fascinating stories and philosophical reflections accompany prayers and descriptions of death rituals to help explain what the soul means in Catholicism and how to care for it in life and in death. A thoughtful investigation about how to approach death, this spiritual resource postulates that the way to secure the fate of the soul after death is to prepare for this eternity by making the right choices throughout life.